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by fastasucan 620 days ago
>Python is by far the slowest mainstream language. It is embarrassingly slow.

Oh? It is by far the fastest language for me. No languages comes close on the time from starting to write, to have code that runs. For me that time far outweighs the execution time, so it is a lot more important.

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may i ask in what field do you specialize? Because any modern language i can think of, is one "project init" command away from "nothing" to "running"